Insights on Digital Wellbeing, AI Ethics and the Psychology of Technology
Cyberpsychology Basics
Clear, accessible explanations of core concepts in the psychology of technology, from phubbing to grief bots, digital wellbeing to leadership in a time of AI. These posts are starting points that are grounded in research and the overall landscape of what’s happening in cyberpsychology, written for anyone who wants to understand how digital life affects the way we think, feel, work, and relate.
Thought Leadership
Deeper dives into the questions shaping our digital future. These pieces draw on my clinical experience, academic research and cultural commentary to examine what's happening at the intersection of AI, human psychology and society.
- AI ethics
- digital wellbeing
- cyberpsychology
- ChatGPT
- chatbots
- technology and relationships
- digital afterlife
- AI chatbots
- mental health
- AI companions
- AI therapy
- anthropomorphisation
- platformisation
- screentime
- AI
- emotional regulation
- AI relationships
- mental health technology
- AI and human flourishing
- griefbots
- ELIZA effect
- human agency
- human-centred AI
- LLM
- computer-human interaction
- doomscrolling
- agentic AI
- therapeutic alliance
- therapeutic relationship
- digitalwellbeing
- grief bots
- technology ethics
Therapy without a Therapist: Are Therapy Bots Good for Us?
They're available at 3am, they never judge, and they’re incapable of caring about you. A cyberpsychologist’s take on what we stand to gain and lose from therapy bots.
Leadership in the Digital Age: AI, Human Agency, and What Your People Need
AI is a freight train, and many workers feel tied to the tracks. Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket on what happens to agency, mastery, and desire when people feel dispensable, and how great leaders centre their people's humanity.
We Are Not Data: A Cyberpsychologist in Davos
Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket reflects on Davos 2026: agentic AI, human accountability, acceleration messages, and artistic imagination.
How Chatbots Exploit Our Instinct to Humanise Them: A Cyberpsychologist’s Perspective
How do AI chatbots like ChatGPT nudge us into forgetting we're talking to machines? A cyberpsychologist examines five anthropomorphising tactics.
The Platformisation of Grief: Why the Commodification of Loss Matters
Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket traces the path from séances to griefbots, and asks what we risk when we use technology to try to eliminate grief.
Is the Embodied Therapist an Endangered Species?: AI, Empathy, and What Humans Still Offer
AI can simulate empathy. It can mirror your tone, match your pace, validate your feelings. What it can't do is know suffering from the inside. Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket on what embodied human therapists still offer that machines cannot.
AI Therapy and the WEIRD Men Who Want to Fix You
What do tech founders assume therapy is, and why might their assumptions be dangerous? Dr Elaine Kasket unpacks the values behind AI therapy and why relationships matter more than algorithms.
The Gold Digger in Your Phone: Why AI Relationships are Corporate Romance Scams
Why aren't we talking about who profits from AI relationships? Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket examines the economics of emotional exploitation.
Agentic AI and Human Agency: A Cyberpsychologist's Perspective
When every AI agent embeds hidden agendas, what happens to human agency? A cyberpsychologist's philosophical rebuttal to the inevitability of agentic AI.
ChatGPT is Coming for Your Soul: How AI Affects Thought
ChatGPT is affecting your cognition. But it may be taking something deeper: the craft of thinking itself, and perhaps your soul.